ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,702, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).
"Method for automatic quality inspection of an aeronautical part" was invented by Sylvaine Picard (Moissy Cramayel, France), Nacim Belkhir (Moissy Cramayel, France) and Enrico Sartor (Moissy Cramayel, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatic quality inspection of an aeronautical part, includes detecting faults on an image of the aeronautical part using a trained artificial neural network; training an auto-encoder on a database, by projecting each image of the database onto a small mathematical space in which the images follow a predefined probability law; for...